Zakir Naik – Living Life for the Wrong Purpose

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The purpose of creation is a question that arises in the mind of every individual, regardless of one's wealth or birthplace. There is a minority who do not believe in the existence of almighty God, and they assume that the full world is created by accident. The main purpose of creation is to eat, drink, sleep, and pro definition, which is the main reason for materialism.

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			The topic
		
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			of
		
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			this evening's talk is
		
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			the purpose
		
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			of creation.
		
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			This
		
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			question, what is
		
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			the purpose
		
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			of creation,
		
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			arises
		
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			in the mind
		
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			of every individual,
		
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			sometime or the other,
		
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			irrespective
		
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			whether he's rich or poor,
		
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			king or pauper,
		
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			black or white,
		
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			yellow or brown, whether he lives in America
		
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			or UK, whether he lives in India or
		
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			Saudi Arabia. This question,
		
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			some time or the other, crops up in
		
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			the mind of each and every individual.
		
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			Why have we been created?
		
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			Why are we here?
		
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			What is our purpose in this world?
		
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			And
		
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			most of the human beings,
		
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			they think
		
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			that
		
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			there has to be a supreme creator,
		
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			there is almighty God. And because of him,
		
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			we are here.
		
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			However,
		
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			there is a minority
		
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			who do not believe
		
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			in the existence
		
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			of the creator of almighty God,
		
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			and they assume
		
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			that the full world
		
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			has come into existence by chance.
		
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			And we human beings too,
		
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			we have come into being by chance.
		
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			Suppose
		
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			you see on the beach
		
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			the footprints of a human being.
		
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			Immediately, a logical person,
		
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			he thinks
		
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			that these footprints have been created
		
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			by the walking of a person.
		
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			A logical person will not
		
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			assume
		
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			that the footprints came into existence by chance,
		
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			or the footprints came into existence by the
		
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			waves coming on the beach, and when the
		
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			waves went away, it created these footprints.
		
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			A logical person will realize
		
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			that these footprints have been created by a
		
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			person. It had a purpose
		
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			why it was created.
		
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			This question,
		
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			what is the purpose of creation,
		
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			can be answered
		
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			in 2 perspectives.
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			from the perspective
		
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			of the creator,
		
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			that
		
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			is almighty God. And second,
		
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			by the perspective
		
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			of the creation
		
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			that is human being.
		
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			The first perspective is
		
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			the view of the creator almighty God. What
		
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			caused him
		
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			to create the human being,
		
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			what caused him to create this creation,
		
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			And number 2, from the perspective of the
		
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			creation, that the human beings,
		
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			that why were we created
		
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			by almighty God?
		
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			Those people
		
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			who do not
		
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			agree
		
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			in the existence
		
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			of almighty God and believe that we have
		
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			come in this world by mere chance.
		
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			According to this philosophy,
		
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			there is no difference
		
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			between the human beings and all the other
		
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			creation.
		
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			All have come by chance. Even the human
		
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			beings as well as the animals.
		
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			So these people do not have a particular
		
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			purpose in life at all.
		
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			They don't have a purpose for existence, and
		
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			they live the same way
		
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			as the animals,
		
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			drink, sleep,
		
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			rest, and procreate. That's it. So the purpose
		
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			of the animals and the human beings become
		
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			the same, to eat, to drink,
		
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			to rest, to sleep, and to procreate.
		
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			And because they don't have a purpose,
		
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			they try and strive
		
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			excellence
		
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			in eating, in drinking, in living,
		
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			and they become materialistic.
		
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			And that's the reason for such people,
		
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			materialism
		
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			becomes a god.
		
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			And because of this,
		
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			the same people,
		
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			they create drugs
		
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			just to own money, to have a better
		
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			living.
		
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			They create bombs
		
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			and weapons of mild destruction.
		
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			They involve in fornication,
		
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			in adultery, in homosexuality,
		
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			in *.
		
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			It doesn't make a difference to them
		
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			whether they make drugs
		
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			or whether they involve themselves in *.
		
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			The main purpose is just nothing but materialism.